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I always assumed a Markov chain was some kind of Siberian drinking game. Hence the interest in the running the chain to its stationary distribution.

• noelwelsh 14y ago
  Odd that this was down-voted. It's a (bad) joke. Allow me to explain: Calculating the stationary distribution is one of the main things people do with Markov chains. That's all that PageRank is -- the stationary distribution of the Markov chain constructed from the network of links on the web.
  • seclorum 14y ago
    {The odds are pretty high that this will get downvoted, on account of the lack of vodka.} Markovs is a natural law, proven, is it not? Well then, it will be found in any system.
  • bo1024 14y ago
    I get the Markov chain part, I don't get the Siberian drinking game part....